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Graduate Does the Quantum Zeno Effect Contradict the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Why can't the wavefunction equal infinity?

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Graduate Derivation of Fowler-Nordheim current density

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Graduate Infinite Energy beneath Quantum Vacuum?

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Graduate Understanding Force on an Atom in the Heisenberg Picture of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Number of components of Dirac spinor in arbitrary dimensions.

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Graduate Relationship between electron and quark charge

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Graduate Wigner's Theorem/Antiunitary Transformation

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Graduate C is infinity thus electrons can be in two places at once

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Graduate Observables and Commutation (newbie questions?)

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Graduate Why not diffeomorphism group representation theory?

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Graduate Photon interaction during refraction

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Graduate Gauge invariant Lagrangian: unique?

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Graduate What is the Landau pole and how does it relate to the coupling constant in QED?

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Undergrad What gives atoms solidity if most of the atom is empty space?

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Graduate What is symmetry breaking in the Standard Model?

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Graduate The Double Slit Experiment: The weirdness of quantam physics

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Graduate Is the uncertainty principle a limit of observation rather than reality?

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Graduate Is uncertainty inherent in QM?

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Graduate Small=high mass at quantum level, but big=high mass at classical level. Why?

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Undergrad What actually happens when a photon strikes an atom?

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Graduate How do we arrive at Q = -1 from T3 and Y?

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Graduate 1/f noise at zero frequency or dc

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Graduate Demonstration of Dirac equation covariance

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Graduate Ampere's law with quantum mechanics

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Graduate Why does reflection introduce a minus sign in the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect?

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Graduate Can Slater Determinant Explain the Difference Between Bosons and Fermions?

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Graduate Do the wave equations need to be modified for obstacles?

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Undergrad Electromagnetic and strong force

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Undergrad Why do electron shells hold different numbers of electrons?

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Graduate Does the Quantum Observer Effect Imply Consciousness Influences Reality?

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Graduate Do we really need physical/real waves to explain single particle interference?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle and information theory

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Graduate Is photon emission possible without electrons changing energy levels?

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Graduate Quantum Computing gate matricies

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Graduate UN-entanglement? is that possible?

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Graduate Dynamics in the heizenberg picture

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Graduate Does quantum information theory imply information cannot be destroyed?

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Graduate Increase in amplitude of an electron wave

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Graduate Why Isn't the Strong Nuclear Force Unified with Electroweak in GUT Models?

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Graduate Do Virtual Particles Become Real Under the Weisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Quantum field theory and the renormalization group

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Graduate Thermionic emission at same temperature

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Graduate Must the State |O,ready> Be Orthogonal to |O,reads up> and |O,reads down>?

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Undergrad What Is the Uncertainty in the Gradient of My Linear Graph?

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Graduate Hydrogwn atom electron probability

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Graduate Linearity of inner product with negative kets

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Graduate Can Someone Please Explain Hermitian Conjugates To Me?

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Graduate Why does the quantum eraser pattern vanish with polarizing filters?

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Graduate What are the energy states of a hydrogen atom in a B field?

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Undergrad What are the differences between the two graphs of electron probability density?

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Graduate Exchange splitting of energy levels of a system?

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Graduate Where is the arrow of time if every decision is essentially instant?

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Graduate Deriving Stationary State Wave Functions for a Free Particle on a Ring

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Graduate QFT as pilot-wave theory of particle creation and destruction

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Graduate Questions about the delayed choice quantum erasure experiment

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Graduate Nonlocality and Compactified Dimensions

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Graduate Ok, suppose Macro-entanglement is possible

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Graduate The Mystery of Quantum Entanglement: Feynman's View on the Double Slit Pattern

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Graduate On Thought Experiments: Question

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Graduate What dimensions are time crystals described as having?

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Graduate Understanding spin, spinors, and rotations

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Graduate Spherical harmonics and wavefunctions

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Graduate Zeeman effect - spin orbit coupling

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Graduate Quantum mechanics without wavefunctions

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Graduate Ref for single electron double slit experiments

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Graduate How does Perturbation theory account for interactions in QED?

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Graduate Wave function collapse with Young's double slits.

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Graduate First-order wavefunction corrections in degenerate perturbation theory

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Undergrad What Are the Force Carriers in the Four Fundamental Forces of Physics?

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Undergrad Energy of light ( wave or particle)

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Undergrad What does the Ångström symbol (Å) mean in quantum wells?

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Graduate Derivative of an operator valued function

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Graduate Wave function is always in abstract space?

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Graduate Schrodinger Equation and wavefunctions

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Undergrad Energy levels hydrogenic atoms

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Undergrad Radial distribution function, concept.

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Graduate How does quantum field theory differ from quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What is the difference between interaction and measurement?

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Graduate Two Groups of Entangled Photons

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Graduate Can photon-photon interactions alone produce black body radiation?

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Graduate Quantum superposition and Vector Space

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Graduate Lagrangian vs Hamiltonian in QFT vs QM

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Undergrad Dose E=hn means quantization of energy?

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Graduate Charge Conjugation and Internal Symmetry Representations

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Graduate U(1), SU(2), SU(3) are symmetry of what?

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Graduate Can better sensors extract more info from old lens w/o limits?

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Graduate Any useful applications at all?

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Graduate When did quantum mechanics first enable practical technology?

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Graduate I can't figure out if these are matrices or numbers

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Undergrad Do Slater's Rules and Hund's Rule Contradict Each Other?

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Graduate Evidence that electron is a point particle?

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Graduate Why is the color invariant in equation 18.38 a linear combination?

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Graduate What is the direction of angular momentum vector of a photon?

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Graduate Can Quantum Probability Fields Mimic Wormhole Effects in Particle Transfer?

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Graduate What does spin 1/2 mean for a particle?

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Graduate Radial wave function in H atom

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Graduate Can a photon have energy of spin?

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Undergrad Electromagnetic radiations in bohr model

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Graduate Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Question

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